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The Rise of American Democracy: Jefferson to Lincoln
Sean Wilentz
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Description for The Rise of American Democracy: Jefferson to Lincoln
Paperback. Winner of the Bancroft Award: "Monumental..a tour de force..awesome in its coverage of political events."-Gordon Wood, New York Times Book Review Num Pages: 1104 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JPHV. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 154 x 42. Weight in Grams: 1234.
Acclaimed as the definitive study of the period by one of the greatest American historians, The Rise of American Democracy traces a historical arc from the earliest days of the republic to the opening shots of the Civil War. Ferocious clashes among the Founders over the role of ordinary citizens in a government of we, the people were eventually resolved in the triumph of Andrew Jackson. Thereafter, Sean Wilentz shows, a fateful division arose between two starkly opposed democracies-a division contained until the election of Abraham Lincoln sparked its bloody resolution. Winner of the Bancroft Award, shortlisted for ... Read more
Acclaimed as the definitive study of the period by one of the greatest American historians, The Rise of American Democracy traces a historical arc from the earliest days of the republic to the opening shots of the Civil War. Ferocious clashes among the Founders over the role of ordinary citizens in a government of we, the people were eventually resolved in the triumph of Andrew Jackson. Thereafter, Sean Wilentz shows, a fateful division arose between two starkly opposed democracies-a division contained until the election of Abraham Lincoln sparked its bloody resolution. Winner of the Bancroft Award, shortlisted for ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
WW Norton & Co United States
Number of pages
992
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Condition
New
Weight
1234g
Number of Pages
1104
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780393329216
SKU
V9780393329216
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About Sean Wilentz
Sean Wilentz is the George Henry Davis 1886 Professor of American History at Princeton University and author of the Bancroft Prize-winning The Rise of American Democracy, Bob Dylan in America, and many other works. He is completing his next book, No Property in Man, on slavery, antislavery, and the Constitution, based on his Nathan I. Huggins Lectures delivered at Harvard ... Read more
Reviews for The Rise of American Democracy: Jefferson to Lincoln
Remarkable ... a book that befits its subject in artistry as well as scale.
Steven Hahn - Chicago Tribune Confirms Sean Wilentz as the Richard Hofstadter of our day-the supreme political historian.
Franklin Foer - New York A magisterial synthesis that deserves the attention of anyone interested in the American past.
Eric ... Read more
Steven Hahn - Chicago Tribune Confirms Sean Wilentz as the Richard Hofstadter of our day-the supreme political historian.
Franklin Foer - New York A magisterial synthesis that deserves the attention of anyone interested in the American past.
Eric ... Read more